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intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether …. -- inequality ; redistribution ; social expenditure ; progressive taxation …
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on pre-government income inequality hints at substantial disincentive effects. -- social benefits ; redistribution …
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This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...
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Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
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impacts on public opinion are important enough to influence policy is unclear. Many scholars argue that Canada is an exception … dramatic growth in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Canada's immigrant inflows in recent decades, but the extent of this … case the estimated effects are small. Our study thus supports the view that Canada's experience stands as an example in …
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I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … favor lower (higher) levels of redistribution. …
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and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada's tax system limits …
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Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...
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Some people make great claims about the advantages to be gained from greater reliance on the private sector for the provision of social protection. Many of the claims for great macroeconomic advantages do not stand up to scrutiny. However, there is some reason to hope that private provision...
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This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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